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Tapper - Max Math Learning Utah 2017 6-8

This document discusses strategies for helping students who struggle with math. It emphasizes that intervention approaches should be tailored to each individual student's needs and understanding. Effective instruction focuses on having students do the work of solving problems in order to build their own understanding, rather than just learning predetermined strategies. Factors that can contribute to students struggling with math include cognitive challenges, as well as ineffective instruction that did not build on their prior knowledge or experiences or focus too much on packaged strategies. The document advocates listening to how each student approaches problems in order to understand their thinking and determine the best type of support. It also describes a project aimed at ensuring all students understand important math concepts by the end of each grade.

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Tapper - Max Math Learning Utah 2017 6-8

This document discusses strategies for helping students who struggle with math. It emphasizes that intervention approaches should be tailored to each individual student's needs and understanding. Effective instruction focuses on having students do the work of solving problems in order to build their own understanding, rather than just learning predetermined strategies. Factors that can contribute to students struggling with math include cognitive challenges, as well as ineffective instruction that did not build on their prior knowledge or experiences or focus too much on packaged strategies. The document advocates listening to how each student approaches problems in order to understand their thinking and determine the best type of support. It also describes a project aimed at ensuring all students understand important math concepts by the end of each grade.

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com/site/maxmathlearning/

Why Some Students Struggle


with Math, and What We
Might Do About It 6-8
Maximizing Mathematics Learning for All Students Conference
Take-Aways for Today

Intervention is not one size fits all. We must understand


how each student makes sense of math to help him.

The best approach is the one that makes sense to the


student.

The learner does the work.


Who are Struggling Math Learners?

Demographic Cognitive
factors Factors

Instructional
casualty
Meet Cody

32 Eight Graders were


given this problem:

There are 124 sheep


and 5 dogs in a flock.

How Old is the Shepherd?


Think of a student

What does he/she struggle with?


What remediation is available to them?
What systems are in place to support
students with occasional difficulties?
What systems are in place to support
students with significant needs?
How are struggling students provided
with specialized instruction?
To create intervention for a student..

We must understand not only IF she understands

But HOW she understands

Listen to each of these students solve the same


problem. How are they approaching the
problem? What do they know?
Why do students struggle?

They have cognitive challenges that


make learning math more difficult.

They have received instruction that


didnt serve them.
Curriculum or pedagogy didnt build on prior
experience
Instruction was focused on learning pre-packaged
strategies.
The All Learners Project

All students can learn math


100% of students demonstrate
understanding of High Leverage
Concepts
High Leverage concepts predict success
in the next grade
The All Learners Project

Coaches at each building to support


teachers
Weekly formative assessment to help
differentiate
Iterative design research to address
student needs
Grade 6
Writing ratios from word problems

Interpreting and computing quotients of fractions, and solving word problems involving
division of fractions by fractions in context.

Grade 7
Accurately solving real world problems involving scale using proportional relationships.

Solving for unknowns in algebraic expressions from real-world problems.

Grade 8
Understanding the connection between tables, expressions, and graphs that represent
linear functions by creating two of these given one. For example, given a table, the student
can create a graph and expression.

Understanding congruency and similarity through the use of transformations


rotations, reflection, and translations.
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